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SQL Saturday Boston 2024

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SQL Saturday Boston 2024

event date

5 Oct 2024

location

5 Wayside Road Burlington, Massachusetts, United States


SQLSaturday Boston will be held at Microsoft Technology Center - Burlington, MA. We will notify all who submitted sessions of the final schedule by  June 30, 2024. If you have one or more sessions accepted, we will email you a discount code to pay for lunch when you register as an attendee on Eventbrite.

Code of Conduct for Boston SQL Saturday.

finished 18 days ago
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

05 May 2024

Call closes at 11:59 PM

08 Jul 2024

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This is an in-person event.

We are accepting one-hour regular sessions and lightning talks up to 15 minutes.

All topics around Microsoft Data Platform, Professional Development, other Database technologies and Mental health are accepted. 

We will notify you no later than July 20th, 2024.


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92 submissions
Submitted sessions
Kellyn Gorman
  • Not If, but When: The Risk to Critical Data with AI
  • Migrating High IO SQL Server Workloads to Azure for the Win
  • Leveraging Instant Extracts from Relational Databases for Azure Fabric
Christian Cote
  • Copilot for Fabric Data Engineering
  • Bridge the gap between Power BI and. data Engineering with Semantic Links
  • Bridge the gap between Power BI and Data Engineering with Semantic links
Jeff Iannucci
  • Surviving SQL Server: Guidance for new or accidental DBAs
  • Getting More from Query Store
  • Defending Your SQL Server: Practical Strategies against Ransomware
Surbhi Pokharna
  • Mastering Cloud Databases with Snowflake: Concepts, Architecture, and Setup
  • Unleashing the Power of Azure SQL Database ‘Hyperscale’
  • SQL Server 2022: Advancing Modern Hybrid Relational Databases
Bogdan Tesileanu
  • Intro to Forecasting using Machine Learning and Python
Steve Jones
  • Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps
  • Balance in Life with a Career
  • Best Practices for Seamless Database Deployments
Suyog Pagare
  • Upgrade 30 TB PostgreSQL database with near Zero downtime
  • IMPORTANCE OF POSTGRESQL VACUUM TUNING TO OPTIMIZE DATABASE PERFORMANCE
Eric Cameron
  • AI Smackdown: Battle of the Coding Companions
  • Interview with a Scampire
Dominick Raimato
  • Harnessing Hidden Potential in Power Query
  • Simulating Scenarios with Power BI
Chandra Pathivada, Venkataramanan Govindarajan
  • "Mastering PostgreSQL: Advanced Techniques for SQL Server DBAs"
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Jason Romans
  • Blogging: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
  • Upgrade to First Class with Calculation Groups for Power BI
  • Power up your Fabric Development with DAX Studio and Tabular Editor
Bill Sanscrainte
  • Go Faster Sooner! Discover SQL Server Index Improvements with the biggest gain for the least pain
Abhilekh Verma
  • [PANEL] Navigating the Impact of AI on Society
  • Advanced Microsoft 365 Mastery: Elevate Your Productivity
Freddie Santos
  • Inside Microsoft Fabric Datawarehouse Engine
  • Analytics Architectures on Microsoft Fabric
Fabiano Neves Amorim
  • Understanding and resolving high query compilation problems
  • Why my shrink is running for 1 week and stuck at 99%?
  • 13 optimizer statistic problems you didn’t know you had
Deborah Melkin
  • WIT Panel Discussion
  • Mastering Dynamic SQL
  • Conquering the Monster Proc - How to Combat Legacy Code
Trey Johnson
  • Fabric and Microsoft Dynamics - Better Together!
Jennifer Patenaude
  • 10X Your Focus and Productivity Through Sleep
Daniel Taylor
  • You Want To PaaS Up Your Database(Revised), Migrating To Azure SQL
  • Be a Better DBA with Database Watcher: A Proactive Approach to Database Monitoring
Kevin Feasel
  • Does This Look Weird? An Introduction to Anomaly Detection
  • Delivering a Great Demo
  • Data Virtualization in SQL Server 2022
Manish Shah
  • Simplify Database Security: Ditch Passwords, Embrace Zero Trust
Dave Bland
  • Completing a Performance Assessment and Creating a Monitoring Tool using SSMS, SSRS and PowerShell
  • PowerShell For the SQL Server DBA
  • Securing an Azure SQL Database
Sudhir Amin
  • Real-time stream analytics from your transactional workload on Amazon RDS
Christopher Chin
  • Data Storytelling is Hard: Let AI Make It Easy
Lakshmi Ponnurasan
  • Supercharge your Power BI Dashboards with Powerviz visuals​
  • Discover Powerops Desktop- Your Free Power BI Sidekick
Danilo Dominici
  • Using Data API Builder: creative scenarios
Sunil Kadimdiwan
  • Exploring Dynamic Security in Power BI
Vinayak Vemula
  • Data Activator - How to "really" make it work with Power BI
Alex Bolenok
  • "Take my table. Please!". Passing tabular data to SQL Server.
  • "Thank you, we have received your inquiry". Stream processing in SQL Server
  • GPT in 500 lines of SQL
Andy Leonard
  • Move Data Using Microsoft Fabric Data Factory
Rick Lowe
  • Weird Stuff I Saw While… Working with Multi Subnet Availability Groups
  • Query Hints ... What’s the Worst That Can Happen
Edwin M Sarmiento
  • Migrate Your On-Premises SQL Server Databases to Microsoft Azure
Edwin M Sarmiento, Jordan Sassi
  • Automate Your Daily Database Checks with PowerShell
Hubert Dulay
  • Real-Time RAG with Apache Pinot
  • The Streaming Plane
Jean Joseph
  • The Art of Regression and Classification: A Beginner’s Guide to Model Training
  • Exploring Sentimental Analysis using Azure AI Search for your Search Documents
  • Microsoft AutoGen: Revolutionizing T-SQL Database Development in the Workplace
Varsham Papikian
  • Mastering Data Transformation: Unleash the Potential of Power Query and M Language
Erin Dempster
  • Introduction to Automated Deployments with GitHub
  • Introduction to Automated Deployments with Azure DevOps
John Miner
  • Control your data lake with Databricks SQL Warehouse
  • “Moving on up, to the Azure cloud, with a PostgreSQL database in the sky.”
  • Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric
David Bermingham
  • Optimizing SQL Server HA/DR Costs in Azure: Key Strategies & Demos
Ray Kim
  • So you want to be a presentation speaker?
  • Networking 101: Building professional relationships
  • I lost my job! Now what?!? A survival guide for the unemployed
Paresh Motiwala
  • Verbal Ninja for DBAs
  • Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic
  • Using Digital Forensics for Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Alan Ferrandiz
  • Visual Symphony: Crafting Elegant Visualizations with R and Power BI
  • Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI
  • Exploratory and Explanatory Data Analysis: from raw data to data-driven business decisions
Edward Pollack
  • New T-SQL FAST: IS DISTINCT FROM
  • Retention - Improving Performance, Compliance, and Data Architecture
  • Database Design Fundamentals
George Walters
  • Unveiling the Future: Dive into Cloud Databases and Analytics with Fabric
  • Modernize your old database-heavy application to cloud architecture
Bob Ward
  • Come see the future of SQL and AI
  • Experience the Story of SQL and Microsoft Fabric
Haripriya Naidu
  • TempDB Contention: How to Identify and Resolve it